Former England and Southampton striker Matt Le Tissier has accused authority figures of hiding details about potential hyperlinks between the Covid vaccine and footballers collapsing on the pitch throughout an look on Joey Barton’s new podcast.
Le Tissier has repeatedly pedalled conspiracy theories in regards to the Covid vaccine over the previous three years, and beforehand claimed that the jab might have precipitated extra incidents of footballers collapsing attributable to struggling with coronary heart issues.
He gave a passionate speech at a gala dinner in Leeds in September the place he declared that he was finishing up analysis into the collapses, and talking on Barton’s podcast he acknowledged that his efforts had not been helped attributable to others withholding key information.
‘We’re nonetheless making an attempt to dig all the way down to get the precise numbers. It’s actually tough, individuals are hiding all types of data,’ he mentioned on the Widespread Sense With Joey Bartonpodcast.
‘I’ve all the time mentioned, simply going from my experiences, I’ve lived on this planet a very long time and watched plenty of sport and I simply knew I’d by no means seen younger, match, wholesome sportspeople collapsing on the charges they’ve been collapsing over the past couple of years, and I knew that one thing was mistaken and I felt like I wanted to say one thing about it.
‘I couldn’t simply sit there and maintain watching the telly, it wasn’t simply soccer both, a number of sportspeople have been having coronary heart issues and it was simply ridiculous. It was only a large elephant within the room that no one would discuss.
‘And I felt like anyone needed to say one thing. Clearly I’ve bought a bit little bit of a profile, I couldn’t maintain my mouth shut.’
Barton – who has sparked controversy in current months with his views on ladies working in males’s soccer – instructed Le Tissier’s refusal to again down when questioning authority may very well be put all the way down to sheer stubbornness.
Le Tissier, 55, agreed with this, as he hit out on the authorities’s dealing with of Covid.
‘I don’t assume it’s [stubbornness] a very dangerous trait, particularly while you’re preventing in opposition to corrupt organisations, and that’s what I imagine our authorities are,’ Le Tissier added.
This isn’t the primary time that Le Tissier has blamed corruption for world points, as he has additionally slammed high-profile people and the media in recent times.
Le Tissier blasted David Beckham for having his picture taken with Microsoft billionaire Invoice Gates throughout a dialog with former footballer David Cotterill on a podcast final yr.
Le Tissier has usually criticised Gates, questioning his involvement within the Covid vaccine.
Again in 2021, he appeared to indicate that Gates may very well be linked to the demise of Tanzania president John Magafuli.
Magafuli died in March 2021 of reported coronary heart problems simply days after the nation’s Prime Minister had declared he was ‘wholesome and dealing arduous’.
